[MPlayer-dev-eng] Posting rules in web page / welcome message

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:06:02PM +0100, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:41:54 +0100, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> 
> > Instead we should direct everyone who's requesting a wiki to the
> > current documentation and the documentation team. If something
> > is not clear in the docu (ie not written, wrong place, unclear language,
> > to complicated, etc pp) then it should be fixed right there instead
> > of patched with a wiki.
> 
> That makes perfect sense, and ideally this is the way to go, but how
> many "Joe users" have the courage to send patches when something is
> wrong/unclear in the doc?
> I guess that's where a wiki could make contributions easier. That's
> just a guess, though, as I've never used them...

my experience is that wiki is the mosy absolutely horrible type of
documentation for software. this comes from dealing with mldonkey.

rich